Palaipaphos Museum (Kouklia)

Local museum in the Lusignan manor house at Kouklia displaying finds from Palaipaphos and its cemeteries, including the Late Bronze Age sanctuary jar, the Skales bronze tripod and the Opheltes obelos. (2004)

Maier 2004

1. 1951
   The Lusignan manor house at Kouklia was acquired by the government after protracted negotiations with the absentee owners, and restored as a museum from the late fifties.

   KoukliaMaier 2004

2. 1958
   George Ioannou served as museum guard in 1958-59 and later as custodian.

   KoukliaGeorge IoannouCatling 2020, p. 15

3. 1963
   The Kouklia Museum received a marble statue base found ploughing near Mandria, with a Hellenistic dedication to Aphrodite and a Graeco-Roman honorary inscription to Rhodokles (RDAC 1964, 211 ff.).

   MandriaNicolaou 1966

• Late Bronze Age storage jar from the sanctuary, relief decoration on one handle

  from Palaepaphos sanctuaryMaier 2004, fig. 28

• Bronze tripod from the Kouklia-Skales cemetery

  from Palaepaphos-SkalesMaier 2004, fig. 14

• Bronze obelos with engraved Syllabic inscription naming Opheltes

  from PalaepaphosMaier 2004, fig. 17

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